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BRIGADE For a better quality of life BRIGADE INSIGHT The Newsletter of the Brigade Group

An ISO 9001-2000 Property Developer

Vol. 7 No. 3 Released in mid-December ’03

Two luxury apartment projects completed Brigade Group patriarch’s centenary celebrated in a unique way

Brigade Legacy—our exclusive twelve- The late Shri M.L. Ramachandra Setty (1903- apartment luxury project on Stephen’s his memory in a meaningful way: with three low- Road, Fraser Town—has been 1998), patriarch of the Brigade Group, was a key functions that related to areas in which he completed. Just one 4-bedroom man of high ideals. A highly respected coffee would have been happy to see us involved. penthouse, with its own private terrace planter and trader, with roots deep in the soil • The first was the Bhoomi Pooja of a project garden, is available. of Chikmagalur, he believed in simple living, that bears his name: the MLR Convention Brigade Jacaranda, off 100 ft Road, integrity in business practices and Centre at Brigade Millennium. Indiranagar, with twelve 3- and 4- bedroom luxury apartments has been philanthropy. This was his legacy, which serves • The second was the inauguration of Brigade- completed and fully booked. as an inspiration to all of us at Brigade Group. CTVTI at Brigade Millennium. So when it came to marking his centenary, • And finally, the first of a three-day Management Three new projects which fell on 13 November, we chose to honour Development Programme at Hotel Atria. More on page 4

Trianz Consulting comes ...and Essilor comes to Brigade Plaza

to Hulkul-Brigade Centre... Essilor, a world leader in Trianz Consulting’s office will be moving to a 17,000 sft opthalmic optical products, will space in Hulkul-Brigade Centre, Lavelle Road. Trianz shortly be moving into their offers clients management consulting, systems 20,000 sft new office at Brigade The Bhoomi Pooja of Brigade Hallmark —our new residential project in Richards integration, outsourcing and offshore solutions. Plaza, Ananda Rao Circle. Town—was performed on 17 October. A luxury 3- and 4-bed apartments project, Brigade Hallmark is set in a charming tree-filled neighbourhood close to Brigade awarded certificate from IFMA Brigade TechPark in Whitefield Richards Park. The Indian chapter Our new project—Brigade of International TechPark, Whitefield—is Facility Management ideal for software, BPO and Association (IFMA), biotech facilities. There are awarded a certificate ready-to-occupy and built- of recognition to the to-suit options available. Its Brigade Group for two blocks cover 400,000 Another apartment project—Brigade being amongst the sft. The Bhoomi Pooja of Brigade TechPark was Coronet—had its Bhoomi Pooja on 23 best service providers performed on 2 November, and construction of Block ‘B’ October. Situated on Palace Road, this project features 3- and 4-bed designer in the industry. This has already begun. apartments. The ground+8 floors was based on a recognition-of-excellence survey carried building features a roof-top swimming out by Ernst & Young for IFMA in November. pool and gym. Mr Deepak Parekh visits Brigade Classic Brigade-PSBB School Brigade Group had the privilege of Classes will start from June 2004 receiving the doyen of the Indian Housing Finance industry, Mr Deepak Admissions to the Brigade-PSBB School, for the academic Parekh, Chairman, HDFC. In the year 2004-2005, started in early December. Classes will photograph, Mr R.V.S. Rao, Executive commence from June 2004. The school is a collaboration Director, HDFC, looks on as Mr Jaishankar welcomes Mr Brigade South Parade: Our new project between Brigade Foundation and Padma Seshadri Bala Parekh at Brigade Classic, Armugam Circle, Basavanagudi, is designed for corporate / zonal offices, Bhavan Schools of . Contd on page 5 for an interactive meeting. software development and BPO facilities. Situated on M.G. Road, adjacent to Oberoi Hotel, an ideal business locality, Brigade South Parade covers 110,000 sft. The construction of this three-storey he building is underway. The project is wis s fo slated for completion in early 2004. t r es a b

Inside... Season's Happy from all of us at Inside Brigade 2 & 3 & Happenings at Brigade Millennium 4 Greetings BRIGADE Brigade-PSBB School 5 GROUP news 6 Home Loans 7 Eating habits of the rich and famous 8

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2 BRIGADE INSIGHT A f e w t h o u g h t s . . . Vol. 7 No. 3 Released in mid-December ’03 Editor’s Note , as we Indians believe, is on a roll. After a infrastructure. The only way to avoid large-scale long gap, the manufacturing sector has started migration is to create economic opportunities in Growth, expansion and diversification make it looking up and there is all-round activity, all the district and taluk headquarters. more apparent than ever that time is always at a creating an abundance of new jobs. The premium and there will never be enough hours in continuing progress in the services THE Government’s initiative to a day. In other words: we’ve been exceedingly sector—particularly IT and BPO—is most reduce stamp duty and registration charges on busy! welcome. However, it is important that this properties from 14% to 9% has yielded progress is reflected in all sectors. increased revenues. This should augur well and New projects, new clients The new year should bring cheer to most! one hopes that in the forthcoming state budget, As this issue of Insight will show, we’ve With the country’s forex reserves edging up to the combined stamp duties and registration several new projects—commercial and the US $ 100 billion mark (a far cry from the charges are brought down to an acceptable residential—coming up in Bangalore and . 1 billion in 1991), India will join the exclusive 4%-5%, as being recommended by the Finance Existing projects are in various stages of creation club, where China is sitting right on top. China, Ministry at the centre for years. and completion. With an expanding customer with its uninterrupted 7%-8% growth in GDP and client base, our calendar will be going out to a great many more people this year! year after year from 1980, has shown to the BRIGADE GROUP’S limited foray into two new world what good economic policies can do to a areas—hospitality (Woodrose Club and Brigade Foundation becomes an operating country’s progress. It is very conceivable that HomeStead Serviced Apts), and education reality India can not only match, but better China in (Brigade-PSBB School and Brigade-CTVTI)— We set up the Brigade Foundation (a the years ahead. For the first time since offers both a challenge and some measure of charitable, non-profit trust) several months ago. independence, our political parties are satisfaction. Projects initiated by the Foundation are now beginning to realise that elections can be won becoming satisfyingly concrete. The Brigade- based on sound economic policies, rather than I EXTEND warm greetings of the season and CTVTI has held its first courses; the Brigade-PSBB on caste and religious considerations. wishes for a very happy and prosperous 2004 to School started issuing applications for the Brigade family of customers, staff, associates admissions…our focus is more definite and our THOUGH the increased economic activity and friends. progress more measurable. This issue of Insight happening in Bangalore is good for its citizens, I covers some of the Foundation’s activities. Future feel it is leading to a big migration from other issues will keep you updated on its present parts of the country and from the rural areas of initiatives and expanding operations. —M.R. Jaishankar Karnataka, creating pressure on the city’s MANAGING DIRECTOR, BRIGADE GROUP And we celebrate turning 17! In the midst of tight schedules and deadlines, we managed to find time to celebrate a very special occasion: our 17th anniversary. On 10 Exhibitions and Brigade October 2003, the entire Brigade Group team The Brigade Property Show was held in Chennai, Brigade Millennium and Brigade Gardenia. took a day off to unwind, relax and share songs, on 8 and 9 November, at Regal Hall, Residency The Reality exhibition, organised by KOAPA games and stories of the past and present. Towers. Our (Karnataka Ownership Apartment Promoters area of focus Association) was held on 27 and 28 September All this and more, in greater detail, is covered in this issue. As always, we look forward to your was residential at Palace Grounds, soon after the Grand feedback. p r o j e c t s , Gardenia Gala. Brigade Group’s stall—bright, mainly our cheerful and elegant—drew an excellent two enclaves, response.

Tandem’s one-stop customer service centre at Brigade Plaza Tandem Allied Services, an associate of Brigade Group, also take care of residential and commercial property needs. inaugurated their office at Brigade Plaza on 10 November. Tandem’s Home Loan has tied up with ICICI Bank for Tandem allows us to become a one-stop property home loans, personal loans and car loans; with New India management services provider. Services offered include Assurance for general insurance and with MetLife India engineering, housekeeping, security and landscaping. They Insurance for life insurance.

The new look and features New Brigadiers come on board... Comment on Brigade Insight of www.brigadegroup.com Project Engineers “We thank you for enclosing your latest David I. Borges, S. Nanjaraj, Praveen Kumar, newsletter, Brigade Insight. It made excellent Manjunatha Murthy, B. Naresh Rao reading. The newsletter is well-presented with Engineers—Quality Control good fonts and colour contrasts, highlighting B.S. Mahadeva Rao, Vachan Prabhakar Hegde, your new corporate signature, in line with elite, Vivek Hangal, Syed Saleem Ahmed contemporary publications. It is very thoughtful Electrical Engineer of you to have included K. Sambath Kumar columns on the housing loans schemes, on Dy General Manager—Projects property registration K.S. Balasubramanya and on heritage Manager—Projects buildings.” In October, a brand new interface greeted Dinesh K. Ganapathy —S. Raghu Ram & Dr Shyla Raghu Ram, visitors to brigadegroup.com. Quantity Surveyor (Clients of Golden Magic Block, Brigade Gardenia) Reinforcing Brigade Group’s new brand M.R. Vishwanath identity, a new look-and-feel, better structuring of content and quicker access to relevant Support Staff information are apparent on the new website. Rani George, P. Sunitha, B.M. Satish Design / CD Clearance Job Detail: Insight December 2003 CD Deadline: 15-12-93 AE Wr DADe AD CJ HJ

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3 An unforgettable day Jaishankar speaks Behind the scenes: Brigade’s annual picnic at BAI function The making of our new calendar Mr M.R. Jaishankar Art has always been the theme of Brigade gave a talk on the Group calendars. To date, our calendars have training of engineers featured paintings, sculptures, murals, and and artisans at the nature, landscape and architectural Bhoomi Pooja of an photography. This year we continue the artisan’s training tradition with yet another form of art: wildlife centre. The Pooja was photography. And our subject is performed by the Builder’s Association of India birds—specifically those found in and around (BAI) on 19 October. Held at the National Bangalore. Games Village, Koramangala, the function was There are a large number of birds to be Our 17th anniversary, on 10 October, was presided over by Mr K.L. Mohan Rao, Chairman, found in Bangalore. celebrated with a day of fun and laughter at Karnataka Centre, BAI. Mr K. Jaisim, architect, Fortunately, there are also Club Cabana. With almost the entire Brigade Jaisim-Fountainhead was the chief guest. The some talented, patient and team at the annual picnic, the day was filled Training Centre is part of BAI’s initiative to knowledgeable people with indoor games, Antakshari and plenty of celebrate ‘Builder’s Day’. The centre will have who photograph them. other interesting and enjoyable events. both 6-month and 2-year courses. To help us zero in on twelve birds for our Our fifth project in Mysore Residents’ point of view: calendar (thirteen, if Brigade Hillview matches you count the flyleaf), the creators nears completion of our calendar, Simova-Resource, sought international standards assistance from an expert in the field: Mr T.N.A. Perumal, an experienced naturalist and an outstanding photographer. He has been awarded the highest honours from some of the world's top photographic bodies and his work has been showcased in salons and publications in India and abroad. Mr Perumal compiled a collection of over

Brigade Tranquil, Yadavagiri, Mysore 100 photographs, from the fraternity of wildlife 2- and 3-bedroom luxury apartments photographers. Over the course of several Our fifth project in Mysore—Brigade Tranquil, Mrs and Mr Rangaswamy, Retd Chief General weeks, these photographs were reviewed by Mr with 2- and 3-bedroom apartments—is nearing Manager, State , have virtually Perumal, Brigade Group and Simova-Resource. completion, with just a few apartments still become ambassadors of the Brigade Group; The final shortlist was made based on both the available. We are soon commencing Brigade their recommendations have resulted in several excellence of the photograph and the Parkway, another luxury apartments project, purchases of Brigade properties. They have significance of the bird. The thirteen near Cheluvamba Park. In the near future, we booked an apartment in Brigade Millennium photographs that were finally selected come will be announcing another project on Gokulam and are eagerly looking forward to living there from the portfolios of four leading wildlife Road. next year. This is what they had photographers of Karnataka. Mysore is a city that offers the best of both to say: To make the calendar more meaningful, the worlds: the graciousness and peaceful environs “When we moved back to India from reverse-side of each datepad contains a brief of a royal city and the sophistication and pace Kuwait, we were keen to maintain the same description of the bird. Mr Perumal helped of the 21st century. It is also developing into kind of lifestyle we enjoyed there and found compile this information, and an excellent book, the second hub of information technology and Brigade Hillview matched international The Book of Indian Birds, by Dr Salim Ali, industry in the state. standards. The community life in Komarla provided any further information that was Mysore is virtually Bangalore's next door Brigade Residency impressed us and we are required. To discover the names of the neighbour. And offers a high quality of life at delighted that Brigade Millennium will carry this birds, we turned to Mr Poornachandra Tejaswi’s an affordable price. On every count, you get on. We are sure it will be Brigade’s best book, Hakki Pukka. great value for your money. project!” We hope you enjoy our calendar as much as we enjoyed creating it!

Guests’ Comments

“ Our stay was very comfortable. Our special thanks to all the members of HomeStead staff for their very good service.” serviced apartments —Sathya Prasad, Intel Asia Pvt. Ltd o f f l a v e l l e r o a d “ Very good value for money—more than that—a home away from home.” —Jay Hotti, Principal Consultant, Schlunberger 12/12, 7th Cross, Lavelle Road, Bangalore 560 001 “ A really nice comfortable home-style living! Exceptionally courteous and efficient staff. All our needs, reasonable or unreasonable, were taken care of with great • Luxury and prestige of a fine hotel efficiency!” in the heart of the city. —Utpal Desai, Intel Corporation • Privacy and conveniences of a beautiful apartment. “ HomeStead provides a soft landing to people like me • Economy and exclusiveness of a who come into Bangalore to set up a firm in a new city. corporate guesthouse. Facilities, service and security are paramount for us, and in all these respects, HomeStead is comparable to international standards. —R.T. Raja, Director,” de Helix Technologies, Whitefield (R.T. Raja, after having lived and travelled all over the world, For reservations contact: 91-80-222 0966—968 email: [email protected] has now made Bangalore his base. He and his family have been living at HomeStead for more than a year now.) www.brigadegroup.com/homestead Design / CD Clearance Job Detail: Insight December 2003 CD Deadline: 15-12-93 AE Wr DADe AD CJ HJ

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4 Woodrose Club Mayflower Block completed The Woodrose Club Cassia and Magnolia, the two 15-storeyed was on display for the luxury apartment blocks are also fully sold and first time on the 28 both blocks are at an and 29 February, advanced stage of during the Brigade construction. Bonanza, with an Jacaranda–a Internal civil work underway exhibition arranged in premium luxury 3- the Members’ Lounge. and 4- bed apartment Visitors to the Brigade Bonanza could now block consisting of visualise the potential of the Woodrose Club. The construction of Mayflower – the first 15- 120 apts – has a few apartments available. Signage identified the different facilities the storeyed block in Brigade Millennium, which Bookings are open for Laburnum, another Club would offer. These facilities will become houses 250 deluxe 2-and 3-bed apartments – premium luxury 3- and 4- bed apartment block, operational progressively, by the third quarter of has been completed in just 18 months and is which houses 60 apts. 2004. fully booked. Construction of the Oak Tree Place The Club is located in an idyllic setting—in a villas at Brigade Millennium has also been 21/2 acre plot within a serene, green residential completed. enclave, with the three-acre Millennium Park right next door. With efficient project management, work Radio City Interview with MRJ has been progressing briskly and construction has been completed. The finishing is now in Radio City RJ Sheetal Iyer took a walk down Millennium progress. In short, an award-winning design is Avenue while she interviewed M R Jaishankar on the Radio becoming more of a reality with each passing City show – Full Meals Real Estate Special. The show aired day. on 29 Feb, while the Brigade Bonanza was underway. Selective membership to the club is now Jaishankar spoke of the 725 apts in the 5 blocks in open. Brigade Millennium, about Brigade’s other projects, the efforts being taken to make our projects environment- friendly and, of course, about the Brigade Bonanza. The Millennium Park The freewheeling discussion about Millennium was interspersed with some of Jaishankar’s favorite songs.

Management Development Programme conducted by Brigade-CTVTI The Millennium Park A Management Development Programme was conducted by The three-acre Millennium Park is ready. The Brigade-CTVTI, at Hotel Atria on 13, 14 and 15 November. The park will be an asset to the residents of Brigade programme focused on contracts, claims and risk Millennium with landscaped green spaces, an management in the construction industry. It was very well- impressive floodlit amphitheatre / stadium, attended and appreciated by the 46 professionals who had tennis and basketball courts, jogging track, registered for it. children’s play area, theme parks and the Japanese garden. M.R. Jaishankar addresses the participants of the Management Development Programme

Brigade Millennium update Large Apartments with Premium Luxury Specs. in pictures In a Great Enclave. At Affordable Prices.

Brigade Millennium is a gentle place to live. Set in a quiet, non-commercialised part of J.P. Nagar. Within a 22-acre enclave, beautifully landscaped. Its award-winning, full-fledged Woodrose Club JACARANDA BLOCK will be ready by mid-2004. The Brigade-PSBB School 3- and 4-bed luxury apts 2100 sft to 3020 sft will open in June 2004. Construction of the MLR (195 sqm to 281 sqm) Convention Centre has just begun. The landscaping Construction in progress Structured completed - Blockwork of 14th floor underway of the 3-acre Millennium Park is completed. Mayflower Block has been completed and is ready for occupation. LABURNUM BLOCK Seeing the impressive and rapid progress of the 3- and 4-bed luxury apts project, ICRA-NAREDCO have awarded Brigade JACARANDA 2550 sft to 3200 sft BLOCK (237 sqm to 298 sqm) Millennium an RT2+ rating, the highest ever Now launched awarded to a project of a private property developer in India. Thereby endorsing the assured success of Brigade Millennium.

THREE BLOCKS FULLY BOOKED • WOODEN FLOORS • FINE DETAILING • TWO SCENIC • BREAKFAST COUNTERS • BATH TUB AND SHOWER ELEVATORS MAGNOLIA MAYFLOWER CASSIA • LARGE BALCONIES PARTITIONS OVERLOOKING THE BLOCK BLOCK BLOCK • TEAKWOOD DOORS • SERVANT’S ROOM CENTRAL COURTYARD • DESIGNER FITTINGS • AMPLE POWER BACKUP • ONE SERVICE LIFT

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5 Brigade-PSBB School—Classes begin June 2004 “...to help shape the memory of innumerable Contd from page 1 future Brigade-PSBB students.” The Brigade-PSBB School is airy, spacious and modern, with landscaped An interview with the architects of Brigade-PSBB School: Praxis, Bangalore gardens on both ground and terrace areas. Covering 70,000 sft of built- up area, the school is imaginatively designed, keeping the needs of a 21st What kind of research went into the century educational environment in firm focus. school design? Its location in Brigade Millennium gives it access, by special This being the second school that we arrangement, to some facilities in the Woodrose Club, 3-acre park and were designing, we had prior experience MLR Convention Centre. in working on a similar program though on a smaller scale. At the very onset we •A co-educational school •CBSE syllabus •Spacious classrooms •Well- knew we were designing an optimum equipped labs •Libraries •Computer centre •Language and Math labs environment not just for students but also •Specially designed “fun-and-learn” classrooms for pre-school children for teachers and staff as well. A building L to R: Ajit, Gitanjali, Gopa, Rajiv •Swimming, tennis, basketball, badminton, table tennis and a floodlit that would integrate well with the stadium •Access to a 450-seat air-conditioned auditorium, with surroundings of Brigade Millennium. We did a study of a number of professionally equipped stage •Classes from pre-KG to std 8 •Std 9 will existing schools in Bangalore, trying to assimilate what constitutes a commence from June 2005 •Std 10 from June 2006 modern school in Bangalore. For admission details and applications for teachers’ positions, visit www.brigadepsbb.org Were there many changes along the way? Why and what? Initially we worked out a program of “a” higher secondary school, which later changed to accommodate PSBB’s specific schedules and needs. ’s words become our school motto We worked out a generic timetable at the preliminary stage of design, We at Brigade-PSBB School believe that students should have firm roots in which subsequently became more specific when PSBB’s activity list became our land, our culture, our language and our ethos—while at the same clearer. The Brigade Engineering team with their past experience in time developing a wide world-view and an understanding of other construction, greatly contributed in a smooth transition between “idea cultures, religions and ways of thinking. Our logo and motto are and implementation” and were instrumental in maintaining the project on reflections of that philosophy. a tight schedule. The contractors at site M/s Lakshmi Nirmaan, also took up the building as a challenge and have been equal partners in the entire Our motto process. ‘O nanna chetana, aagu nee aniketana’ What makes an ideal school environment? A number of elements and ideas come together to create an ideal O my spirit, transcend all boundaries environment for a school. On various programmatic levels the school has been designed keeping in mind issues of safety and security. It’s a self- The school motto is taken from the first line of the poem contained unit serving the needs of over 1600 students. “Aniketana”, written by the great Kannada poet Kuvempu in Kuvempu Of all the criteria of importance while designing the school, the one we 1956. The poet is inspiring his spirit to break out of the narrow confines gave most importance to was ‘memory’. Everyone carries within of home, religion and country, and to reach for the eternal and universal. themselves a part of their schooling environment for the rest of their lives. This motto echoes the spirit of the school. It is a big responsibility to help shape the memory of innumerable future A household name wherever Kannada is spoken and read, Brigade-PSBB students. In their lives all future references will have parallels Venkatappa Puttappa (K.V. Puttappa, 1904-1994) is revered as one of the based on the school they studied in. great Kannada poets of the 20th century. He has written over 70 books Which feature in the school gives you the most satisfaction? including poetry, novels, essays and plays. Most critical to the school is the surrounding area that is available for play and recreation. The school has access to facilities that contribute Our logo enormously to its environment. This sets it apart from almost all schools in Our logo is the visual translation of our motto. and around Bangalore. The particular area that is of interest to us is the • The bird, a seagull, represents the soaring spirit school library, which will accommodate both senior and junior sections and intellectual freedom. and is envisaged as a very flexible space allowing for a multitude of • The yellow square stands for energy, optimism different functions. The kindergartens open out into spaces allocated for and happiness. play and effectively double the size of the classes. Individual play-lots for

• The fact that our motto is from a Kannada poem O nanna chetana, different age groups are clearly demarcated and landscape integrates all symbolises the need for rootedness. The script aagu nee aniketana the diverse activities together. Landscaped terraces also form spill-over being in English represents a universal outlook. BRIGADE-PSBB spaces from classrooms as further activity zones.

Whatever your needs, tastes and budget, you’ll find the home of your dreams at Brigade Gardenia

BRIGADE GARDENIA is a 15-acre campus, with reliable security, continuous water and power 85% open space and 5 deluxe apartment supply and a delightful, gentle environment. Relax, blocks spaced comfortably apart. workout or entertain friends at the 24,000 sft, full- Your home will include a spacious enclave fledged Augusta Club. Also, the Brigade-PSBB filled with flowers, facilities and friendly faces; School in Brigade Millennium, just half a with landscaped gardens that are in meticulous kilometre away, will be operational by June 2004. order. Children can enjoy their childhood playing Enjoy a better quality of life at Brigade in safe, open spaces; the elderly can feel Gardenia. It’s surprisingly affordable! comfortable and protected; everyone can enjoy Come, select from a range of 2- and 3-bed apts in: BRIGADE Magnifica Block Golden Magic & Jardine Blocks Glacier & Carinata Blocks 3-bed deluxe apts 3-bed deluxe apts 2-bed deluxe apts 1630 sft & 1650 sft 1380 sft to 1430 sft 980 sft to 1030 sft GARDENIA (152 sqm & 153 sqm) (128 sqm to 133 sqm) (91 sqm to 96 sqm) NEXT TO RBI LAYOUT, J.P. NAGAR Approved for home loans by all leading financial institutions Design / CD Clearance Job Detail: Insight December 2003 CD Deadline: 15-12-93 AE Wr DADe AD CJ HJ

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6 City to have six new parking complexes

The city is developing in all directions along radial and arterial roads. It IAS, said the work on three parking complexes at J.C. Road, K.G. Road and has witnessed an enormous increase in the number of vehicles on the Magarath Road are already half-way. Along with these, there are proposed roads. This has led to a strain on road space and its utilisation. parking complexes at Jayanagar VI Block, Gandhi Nagar, and the Dickinson After a series of infrastructure projects including Road-Dispensary Road Junction, for which tenders have been flyovers, underpasses, over-bridges, and subways that floated. Work will start by January next year. were launched in the city last year, Bangalore is set to He also said that the BCC was looking for places for overcome the problem of parking to a considerable level parking complexes in the vicinities of M.G. Road, off shortly. Commercial Street, Anand Rao Circle, and Residency Road. The Bangalore City Corporation (BCC), will unveil three He said these places, being commercial hubs of the city, need major multi-storey car parking complexes in the parking complexes. beginning of 2004 and start work on three others, of The parking complexes can hold between 200 to which two would be fully computerised. 400 cars and will cost between 6 to 40 crores.

The BCC Commissioner M.R. Sreenivasa Murthy, NETRA SHYAM —Excerpted from Times Property, 14 November

Bring greenery indoors Next generation bus shelters Plants add liveliness and freshness to interiors. A bus shelter can do a lot more than just create an ambience of progress and even give With limited outdoor space available to the provide commuters with a place to wait in, people waiting in them a sense of security average city dweller, often it makes sense to shielded from the sun and rain. These days the thanks to their bright lighting. bring some of the greenery indoors. city has numerous shelters that are attractive, The neon signs on the bus shelters give them Use plants and flowers that fit in with your innovative, and even informative. Polished a fancy look. It brings alive the surroundings and chosen style of decoration. Plants also have granite seating, bright illumination, stainless makes waiting for a bus a little easier. In areas psychological and physiological benefits. Dust is steel railings, attractive where tiled footpaths and reduced by as much as 20% where plants are signages, and in one glass-fronted buildings are kept. Strategically placed plants quiet down an shelter, even an audio changing the city's look and office, as they have been found to have sound commentary synchronised feel, these high quality bus absorption capacity. with pictures of famous shelters complement the Palms, tall and wide-spreading plants, personalities of the State. aesthetics, completing the clusters of small plants, indoor trees, and Some of Bangalore’s pretty picture. flowers all add a new look to interiors. bus shelters add colour to —Excerpted from The matching of plant texture, height, and the surrounding area. They Brigade Gardenia bus shelter at Kanakapura Road Times Property, 14 November spacing is important. Texture of the plant refers to its leaves: their size, shape, edging, number, arrangement and thickness. Small plants must Mysore—the “Fleet Street” of India Bangalore: a mobile city! be placed in front. The amount of light in a room and the As we go to print, we learn from The Hindu (11 A trendsetter on many counts, Bangalore is now direction of the windows can also affect the Dec) that Mysore has earned one more a leader in the mobile revolution. The city has choice of a plant. Avoid putting plants right sobriquet: the city of newspapers or the “Fleet more mobile phones than land lines. Bangalore next to a window. Street” of India! According to the Mysore is the third city in India to achieve this When acquiring a plant, keep in mind its Gazetteer (last updated in 1988), there are milestone; the others being Delhi and maintenance. more than 250 registered newspapers in the Chandigarh. The number of mobile phones city, of which at least 170 were registered in the (both GSM and CDMA) in Bangalore is about —Excerpted from Times Property, 10 October pre-independence era. 11.7 lakh as of now—about 70,000 more mobiles than land lines. —Excerpted from Deccan Herald, 11 December Fabrics for office furnishings For Corporate / Regional HQs, Software Development, Most offices have the following areas: a reception or front office, a conference room, a BPO and Biotech facilities cafeteria and cabins. A reception looks lovely with upholstered Both ready-to-occupy and built-to-suit options sofas for seating visitors. Depending on the kind of business you are in, you can choose from a wide range of tapestry material for upholstery. A great software facility at Whitefield ! Our other facilities But, the tapestry has to be good-looking and durable. The number of people using this area is 9,000 sft to 110,000 sft going to be large. (837 sqm to 10,230 sqm) The conference rooms are usually categorised into VIP and non-VIP rooms. Use M.G. Road • Lavelle Road • Koramangala upholstered furniture in the VIP locations. You Race Course Road • Basavanagudi may want to go with pastels and lighter shades. You can also indulge in curtains instead of the regular blinds. Brigade TechPark, Next to ITPL www.brigadegroup.com/software In a cabin, the only place you can use Up to 400,000 sft (37,200 sqm) upholstered furniture is on the chairs of the executives. Many computer chairs are also upholstered for additional comfort. State-of-the-art design and construction • Option of warm shell or fully furnished In a cafeteria, you can use checked • Communication links • Ample power with 100% backup tablecloths. Use practical furniture, which is easy • Abundant parking • Landscaped gardens to wipe and dry off with a cloth.

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7 Fortune magazine tells Americans: “Where your job is going...to Bangalore, India”

Every weekday, as the them to work. Then, as business hours begin in for similar work—and in many cases they do it tropical sun begins its the Eastern U.S., thousands of these young better. That has stoked understandable alarm in swift descent over the Indians don telephone headsets and do their the U.S. Together with China’s rise in Deccan plain, fleets of enthusiastic bit to help the American people get manufacturing, it is bringing protectionists out what the Indians call their Internet service working, figure out their of the woodwork. It is also causing even those “multi-utility vehicles” credit card bills, and order tacky limited-edition of a less reactionary bent to wonder just what it fan out across collectibles. is that Americans will do for a living now that Bangalore. The Tata In Bangalore some 110,000 people are even knowledge work can easily be sent Sumos and Toyota employed writing software, designing chips, overseas. Qualises bump along running computer systems, reading MRIs, The real clincher is that despite constant the potholed, muddy processing mortgages, preparing tax forms, and complaints about Bangalore’s insane traffic, residential streets of doing other essential work for U.S., European, skyrocketing real estate prices, and fickle India’s fifth-largest Japanese, and even Chinese companies. workforce—and constant efforts by other cities, city, stopping to pick The attraction of the Indian knowledge especially and Chennai, to get in on up young men and workers who get those jobs is that they're paid the action—companies and people keep coming women and carry 10% to 20% of what Americans would except to Bangalore. —Excerpted from Fortune, 1 December

Vidhana Soudha to become a BPO centre ?

When it comes to IT and BPO, Bangalore has conference where he announced Our new Indian replacements become a part of common lore around the the decision, adding, “the will be much more world. Reproduced below is a humorous email American people want to see less cooperative to the President, that has been doing the rounds in the USA. government waste. Since every which is what we all want.” Please read the piece with tongue-in-cheek. one of those ex-Congressmen The new members of had a salary of $150,000, this Congress seem thrilled with Bush Lays Off Congress; will Outsource move will cut our costs by over the attention they are Lawmaking to India —by Jay Slupesky $80 million per year, and that’s receiving. Speaking from the Citing the growing cost of running the not even counting what we’ll offices of All-India Legislative Federal government and the need to cut costs in save on health insurance and retirement plans.” Support Centre Ltd in Bangalore, new order to reduce the budget deficit, President Sources indicate that the Indian replacements Mississippi Senator Ramchandra Shektar Gupta Bush announced today that he was laying off all will be paid approximately $250 per month. told reporters, “The Indian people are very hard 535 members of Congress and transferring ”I think it’s a great idea,” said Vice-President working and we will do our best as U.S. lawmaking operations to a legislative support Dick Cheney, speaking from a secure undisclosed Congressmen and Congresswomen. And we are center in Bangalore, India. location. “The American people were fed up going to have some fun too. Just think: we have “Hey, outsourcing is the way to go these with that expensive do-nothing Congress which $2 trillion of the American taxpayers’ money to days,” said Bush at an impromptu news didn’t give the President everything he asked for. spend!”

Home loans for NRIs

The Reserve Bank of India grants certain Indian HFCs and banks permit • General power of attorney permission to provide funds to NRIs for the purpose of acquiring a house The loan amount sanctioned could range from a minimum of Rs 5 for self-occupation. All NRIs holding a valid Indian passport can apply for lakhs to a maximum of Rs 1 crore. While the loan can be availed for as a housing loan. NRIs who are of Indian origin, but do not possess an much as 85% of the price of the property, the actual amount released Indian passport, don’t qualify for an NRI home loan. depends on the NRI’s past experience and present salary. A typical list of documents that need to be furnished by an NRI Fees, bank charges, pre-EMI interest payments and EMIs should be includes: • Passport • Visa • Bank statement, both domestic and paid by remittances from abroad through normal banking channels. They international for the last 6 months • Salary certificate that mentions—in include your NRE or NRO account in India. More about home loans on English—name, position, date of joining, and salary details • Work www.brigadegroup.com —Excerpted from Times Property, 21 November

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